![]() ![]() Brar and his comrades worked to bring a Stalinist programme to the SLP, but were eventually expelled seven years later. This led to the Indian Workers Association severing its links with Lalkar. He and his comrades officially dissolved the ACW in 1997 in order to join Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party, set up in opposition to Tony Blair's New Labour though the group continued as an active faction within Scargill's party. ![]() He joined the Maoist Revolutionary Marxist-Leninist League but soon left to become a founder member of a small group of anti-revisionists, the Association of Communist Workers, as well as being a member of the Association of Indian Communists. ![]() īrar became active in the anti-Vietnam War movement during the 1960s. He is noted for his "antirevisionist" positions describing the Stalinist project of forced collectivisation and industrialisation as the working class's willing "forego(ing of) consumption in order to build the mighty Soviet state". Harpal Brar (born 5th October 1939) is an Indian-born communist politician and writer, based in Britain.īorn in Muktsar, Punjab, India, Brar has lived and worked in Britain since 1962, first as a student and then as a lecturer in law at Harrow College of Higher Education (later merged into the renamed University of Westminster). ![]()
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